Quotes About Uncertainty

I welcome the powers of the unknown.

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

A no deal Brexit could bring Britain to a grinding halt and threaten the wellbeing of our country.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West Coast. But they went anyway.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Practicing hard doesn't guarantee you anything.

I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

Could I be a good mom? That's a dream, I pray that I'll be the best mom ever. But I don't know. It's so important to me.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.